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Turin reinvents itself

December 22, 2014

Turin's glory days as an automaker town have all but faded.

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Its famous Lingotto Fiat plant is now a convention center complex with hotels and a museum. The municipal government is trying to market Turin as a centre of culture, architecture and design. And despite Fiat's retreat and a prolonged recession, it seems the city is gradually transforming itself into a modern, multifaceted metropolis.